Ben Fry on Computational Information Design
I just feel the need to repeat this. It encourages. “One significant difficulty with such problems is knowing, given a set of data, how to glean meaningful information from it. To most, the process is entirely opaque. Fields such as statistics, data mining, graphic design, and information visualization each offer components of the solution, but...
Sometimes it has to take time to understand
Original post January 2009 When you start to learn a new language – like Spanish, you don’t expect to understand a spanish news cast completely after the first class. Then why do we have this enormous demand on gui and visualisation that is innovative to be completely and immidiately understood? Some things will take time...
Superpoint library
Very cool library for processing. http://www.hardcorepawn.com/SuperPoint/
Quote from Organic information design by Ben Fry
Original post march 2008. Wonderful quote from Ben Frys Dissertation on Organic Information Design Design techniques for static information are well understood, their descriptions and discourse thorough and well-evolved. These techniques fail, however, when dynamic information is considered. Dynamic information is continually changing data taken as input from one or many sources. Changes in the...
